The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYI’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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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 hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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