Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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