The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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