But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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