The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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