I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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