There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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