An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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