When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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