By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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