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

 

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
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This quote is just one of 7 total Alan Kay quotes in our collection. Alan Kay is known for saying 'The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It [the computer] 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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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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
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It (the computer) 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.

Alan Kay
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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.

Alan Kay
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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. -Alan Kay
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay
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