The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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