The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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