As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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