Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYI’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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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