The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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