Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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