Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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