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.
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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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