There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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