Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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