I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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