Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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