Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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