Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYI think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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