There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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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.
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