Alan Kay Quotes, Media Quotes, Expression 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.

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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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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. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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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. 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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

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