Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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