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?
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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