Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class 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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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