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.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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 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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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