Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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