Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The best way to predict the future is to invent 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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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