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.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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