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.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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