Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAYI think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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