And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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 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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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