Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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