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 KAYSo 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 KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYWhen I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYIf 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?
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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