We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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