Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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