Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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