Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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