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.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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