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ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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