There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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 company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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