Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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