Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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