The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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