Do not automate the work you are engaged in, only the materials
24.11.2024
Children who have not yet lost much of their sense of wonder and fun have helped us to find an ethic about computing: Do not automate the work you are engaged in, only the materials. If you like to draw, do not automate drawing; rather program your personal computer to give you a new set of paints. If you like to play music, do not build a "player piano": instead program yourself a new kind of instrument.
Alan Kay, Microelectronics and the Personal Computer (1976)