Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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