As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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