[Edu-sig] Alan Kay - another one of his ideas

[francois schnell]

On 17/07/06, Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> francois schnell wrote:
>
> >
> > Einstein said that it's  ~"hard to understand what you never
> > experienced" and I believe that's why he also said that  "imagination
> > is more important that knowledge" (ridding a photon to ~"experience"
> > relativity, etc  ...).
> >
> Francois,
>
> I have read the Book of Kay.  If it were have the proper effect on me,
> it would have done so already.  Quoting from it to me is therefore to no
> avail.  But I suspect you knew that already.


To my knowledge Alan Kay never wrote a 'Book'  ... I'm then somewhat puzzled
by your omniscience and omnipotence ;)

"If you're looking at something and you don't know where it comes from, if
there's no pointer to the source, you can ignore it."

Tim Berners-Lee (WWW 'father')
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm

cheers,

francois

However I do see  why the  ability to think independently  looms large
> as an issue to you.
>
> Good luck getting there.
>
> Art
>
>
>
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