Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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