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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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