To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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