As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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