Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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