We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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 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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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 don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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