Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYAnd 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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