The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe 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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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 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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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