It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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