Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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