The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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 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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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 protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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