When I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYI knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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