The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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