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.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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