In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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