Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYWhen was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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