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 KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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