Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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