As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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