Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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