The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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