When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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