And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Some 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.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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