Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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