We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Some 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.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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