Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAY
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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