The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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 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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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