Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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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[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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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