Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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