In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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.
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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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