The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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