The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAY[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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