The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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