Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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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 who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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