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.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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[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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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