[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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