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.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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