Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYAnd when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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