Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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