Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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 made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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