In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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