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.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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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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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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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