In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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