As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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