Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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