Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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 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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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