Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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