Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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