We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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