When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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