Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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