An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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