Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves 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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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