The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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