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.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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 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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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