A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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