In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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