The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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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 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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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