I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAY
[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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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 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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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