Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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 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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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