Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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