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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Alan Kay

If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAY

Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAY

Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAY

Country never Utopian
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAY

Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAY

Compute Distress Dos Hit Java Microsoft Most Since Thing

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