The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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