Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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.
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