Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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