It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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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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.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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.
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