Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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 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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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