When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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