Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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