Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAY
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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