A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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