Simple vs. Powerful

"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. We can contrast this with technologies that do have learning curves, but pay off well and allow users to become experts (for example, musical instruments, writing, bicycles, etc. and to a lesser extent automobiles)."

~Alan Kay, pioneering computer scientist.

Words of wisdom.

Continue reading at http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/

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