When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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