Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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