There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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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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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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