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.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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