I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me. - Alan Kay 1 Share Now -
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. - Alan Kay 2 Share Now -
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. - Alan Kay 4 Share Now -
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. - Alan Kay 6 Share Now -
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. - Alan Kay 7 Share Now -
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. - Alan Kay 8 Share Now -
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay 9 Share Now -