The best way to predict the future is to invent 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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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