By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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