[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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