Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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Some 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.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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