But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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 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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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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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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