Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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