Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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