Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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