More from Alan Kay
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
Alan KayAlan Kay Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
Alan KayAlan Kay Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
Alan KayAlan Kay Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
Alan KayAlan Kay Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan KayAlan Kay Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan KayAlan Kay I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
Alan KayAlan Kay 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.
Alan KayAlan Kay Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
Alan KayAlan Kay The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
Alan KayAlan Kay Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
Alan KayAlan Kay Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
Alan KayAlan Kay But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan KayAlan Kay Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
Alan KayAlan Kay Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
Alan KayAlan Kay The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan KayAlan Kay
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And that is how time heals, not by erasing but by blurring all the memories.
VesmirVesmir Let me follow my dream. Let me follow my queen.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander Be kind to yourself, the way you would be to someone you love.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell We need to surrender ourselves to the water before we can climb the spiral ladder.
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett Giving up your dreams is easy, but ask yourself is it really easy to live without dreams?
Sania AbbasSania Abbas It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us. Sort of like how I say ‘funny’ – but I actually mean sad.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki You can’t keep living backwards – Reminiscing on what was, And terrified to pursue What could be.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown
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It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?
Amy WinehouseAmy Winehouse My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy WinehouseAmy Winehouse I don’t ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend.
Amy WinehouseAmy Winehouse Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.
Victoria BeckhamVictoria Beckham So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink, put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink. Oh, it could be so nice to grow old with you, I wanna grow old with you.
Adam SandlerAdam Sandler I woke up this morning and for once, I had no desire to drink my morning coffee. Is that how it felt for you to wake up and never return?
Emily KurcEmily Kurc If I start going back to church, I’d have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn’t be able to curse any more.
Katherine HeiglKatherine Heigl I never drink in the morning. Mornings are for drugs.
Tony CobleTony Coble