The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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