Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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