Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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