As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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