The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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