We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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