Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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