Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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[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.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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