Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYArt also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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