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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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