Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAY
Quite 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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAY