It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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