When I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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 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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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