I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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