Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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?
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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