In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build 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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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