A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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