Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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