Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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