The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYI made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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