To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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