The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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