The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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