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.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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