Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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