The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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