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?
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build 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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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