Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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[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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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