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More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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