Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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