There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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