I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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