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”.
ALAN KAYIt 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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