Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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