This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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So 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.
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