Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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