If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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