There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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