And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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