The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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