I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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