Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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