The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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