Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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