To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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 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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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