The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYIt 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.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYBad 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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