Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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[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.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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