If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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