So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Art 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.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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