Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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 to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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