Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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