People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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