Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAY
ALAN KAY
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Alan Kay108 quotes“Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.”
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
Alan KayAlan Kay Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
Alan KayAlan Kay But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan KayAlan Kay Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
Alan KayAlan Kay Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
Alan KayAlan Kay The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan KayAlan Kay In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
Alan KayAlan Kay People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan KayAlan Kay If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Alan KayAlan Kay The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
Alan KayAlan Kay Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
Alan KayAlan Kay There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
Alan KayAlan Kay An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
Alan KayAlan Kay This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
Alan KayAlan Kay Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
Alan KayAlan Kay A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on extend
The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren’t called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
Alan CorenAlan Coren The word “souvenir” has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless.
Alan CorenAlan Coren Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou It’s competing that matters. It’s proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It’s a persona challenge to extend myself.
Al OerterAl Oerter Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
Al GreenAl Green I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei