Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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