The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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