Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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