Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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[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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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