We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYBecause the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAY