Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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).
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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.
ALAN KAYBad 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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAYYazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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.
ALAN KAYAnd 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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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