There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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