In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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 easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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