The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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