Alan Kay Quotes, Law Quotes, Track Quotes

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, 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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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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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. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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