In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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