And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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 fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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