A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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