By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYSo at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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