The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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