Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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 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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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