We cannot predict the future, but we can 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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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