Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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 protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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