The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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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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