It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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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.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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