Pygmalion: A Creative Programming EnvironmentStanford University, 1975 - 468 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
Alan Kay argument icon Arnheim attribute break smalltalk plot call return repeat change delete copy code list concepts constant remembered define container copy refresh show cr disp create change delete creative dashes dashes data structures delete copy refresh display screen doit drawline dynamic eval Mouse value execution false fetch FORTRAN Fregean geticon mousex mousey Gombrich icon icon icon's iconic context iconic function iconic structure icons create change images Ivan Sutherland Lucien Freud Menu icons create menu operation microcode mousex mousey index name value shape programming languages PYGMALION Radia Perlman recursion refresh show name remember constant remembered remember mode remembered define display repeat done eval representation semantics shape body opcodes short term memory show name value SIMULA smalltalk plot exit subclass subroutine superclass supervector text break smalltalk text editors topbutton value icon value shape body vector visual vmess waitmouse Xerox PARC
Passagens conhecidas
Página 8 - The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be "voluntarily
Página 36 - ... abstract ideas are not so obvious or easy to children or the yet unexercised mind, as particular ones. If they seem so to grown men, it is only Decause by constant and familiar use they are made so: for when we nicely reflect upon them, we shall find that general ideas are fictions and contrivances of the mind, that carry difficulty with them, and do not so easily offer themselves as we are apt to imagine.
Página 53 - Among the great numbers of combinations blindly formed by the subliminal self, almost all are without interest and without utility ; but just for that reason they are also without effect upon the esthetic sensibility. Consciousness will never know them ; only certain ones are harmonious, and consequently, at once useful and beautiful.
Página 9 - Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
Página 9 - Purely verbal thinking is the prototype of thoughtless thinking, the automatic recourse to connections retrieved from storage. It is useful but sterile.
Página 9 - But taken from a psychological viewpoint, this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought— before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.
Página 53 - This is only a hypothesis, and yet here is an observation which may confirm it: when a sudden illumination seizes upon the mind of the mathematician, it usually happens that it does not deceive him, but it also sometimes happens, as I have said, that it does not stand the test of verification ; well, we almost always notice that this false idea, had it been true, would have gratified our natural feeling for mathematical elegance.
Página 41 - We may proceed to define the creative thinking process as the forming of associative elements into new combinations which either meet specified requirements or are in some way useful.
Página ii - I certify that I have read this thesis and that in my opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and quality, as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Página 17 - A review of what is known about perception, and especially about sight, made me realize that the remarkable mechanisms by which the senses understand the environment are all but identical with the operations described by the psychology of thinking. Inversely, there was much evidence that truly productive thinking in whatever area of cognition takes place in the realm of imagery.