School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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