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ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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