Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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