If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYAnd 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.
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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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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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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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