The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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 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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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