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 KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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