The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYBad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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 I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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