Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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