Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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