By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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