It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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