The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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