An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Bad 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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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