Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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[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.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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