Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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 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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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