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.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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