Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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