There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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