The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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