Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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