Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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