Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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