Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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