When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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