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Computer Quote by Alan Kay

“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.” quote by Alan Kay — Download Open image

“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.”

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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at…

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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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When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the…

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold…

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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

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It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -…

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Computer programmers do it byte by byte

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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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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…

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The display is the computer.

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It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI…

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We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

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I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if…

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on…

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Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

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Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

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Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…

Robert A. Heinlein

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