To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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