Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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