Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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 the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Because 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.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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