We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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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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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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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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