Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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 a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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