#alan-kay

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Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

One of my all time favorite talks of AKay's, given in 2015.

What is the cost of not listening to Alan Kay?

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"Computer Science is not a discipline, it is pop culture"

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This is the best book that anybody has written in 10 years, but why the hell did you write in such lisp centric closed club centric way. (...) This book has some of the most profound insights and the most practical insights about OOP that anybody has done (...) anybody who rewrites this book in a different language so that the general OOP community can understand it (..) will be [doing] a great service to mankind.

Alan Fucking Kay on the Art of the Meta Object Protocol

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Go to the article on Logo, can you write and execute Logo programs? Are there examples? No. The Wikipedia people didn't even imagine that, in spite of the fact that they're on a computer. That's why I never use PowerPoint. PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime.

Alan Kay

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Binstock: You once referred to computing as pop culture

Kay: It is. Complete pop culture. I'm not against pop culture. Developed music, for instance, needs a pop culture. There's a tendency to over-develop. Brahms and Dvorak needed gypsy music badly by the end of the 19th century. The big problem with our culture is that it's being dominated, because the electronic media we have is so much better suited for transmitting pop-culture content than it is for high-culture content. I consider jazz to be a developed part of high culture. Anything that's been worked on and developed and you [can] go to the next couple levels.