The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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