The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYBecause 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.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYAnd to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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