If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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