Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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