It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYBecause 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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[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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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