The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYJava and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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