The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYWhen the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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