The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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