Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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