The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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