Aristotle on Learning
The things I have to do I learn by doing them.
Quotes
Bill Buxton on Design Methods
Getting the right design and the design right.
Freeman Dyson on Mental Models
Einstein’s great work had sprung from physical intuition and when Einstein stopped creating, it was because he stopped thinking in concrete physical images a...
Richard Feynman on Making
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Steve Jobs on Human Behavior
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Alan Kay on Reusable Modules
Leonardo could not invent a single engine for any of his vehicles. Maybe the smartest person of his time, but he was born in the wrong time. His IQ could not...
Alan Kay on Invention
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay on Point of View
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay on Technology
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
Jaron Lanier on User Interfaces
If there’s any object in human experience that’s a precedent for what a computer should be like, it’s a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a ...
J.C.R. Licklider on Human-Computer Interaction
The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will t...
Marvin Minsky on User Interfaces
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.
Pablo Picasso on Learning
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso on Creativity
Good artists copy, great artists steal
Scott Rosenberg on Software Engineering
Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new, but the catch is that the only software worth making is software that does something n...
Bret Victor on Computer Programming
People understand what they can see. If a programmer cannot see what a program is doing, she can’t understand it.
Bret Victor on Thinking
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. Learning about “for” loops is not learning to program, any more than learning about pencils is learning t...
Mark Weiser on User Interfaces
Our computers should be like our childhood: an invisible foundation that is quickly forgotten but always with us, and effortlessly used throughout our lives.