There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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