Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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