Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYSimple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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