There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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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.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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