In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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 had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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