I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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