Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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