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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”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Voice Quotes
  • Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Media Quotes , Expression Quotes
  • 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.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Design Quotes , Coins Quotes