There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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