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.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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