Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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