Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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 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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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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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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