There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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