There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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