Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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 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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