Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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