The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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