The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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