School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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