This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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