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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
~ Alan Kay
About
Hardware
Make
Own
People
Really
Serious
Should
Software
Who
design
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~ Alan Kay
IQ
Perspective
Points
Worth
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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.
~ Alan Kay
Becomes
Before
Believe
Demands
Everyone
Few
Few People
Normal
Once
People
Quite
Reached
Situation
Something
Sort
Then
Threshold
Voting
Whatever
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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.
~ Alan Kay
Anybody
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Complex
Every
Every Time
Feel
Flower
He
His
Inferior
Inferiority
Inferiority Complex
Intelligence
Looks
Make
Mind
People
Right
Right Mind
Should
Some
Some People
Then
Time
Us
Will
Worry
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~ Alan Kay
Best
Best Way
Future
Invent
Predict
Way
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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.
~ Alan Kay
Act
Computer
Exploited
Language
Like
Machine
Nature
Shaped
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All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.
~ Alan Kay
Agriculture
Back
Businesses
Companies
Could
Cultures
Deep
Find
Gathering
Hunting
Invent
Like
Problem
Prosper
Put
Something
Together
Way
Worked
World
Would
Years
Years Ago
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
~ Alan Kay
Apple
As Far As
Company
Different
Every
Far
Few
Goes
Joined
Time
Years
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Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.
~ Alan Kay
About
Bad
Because
Computing
Guitar
Hero
Illusion
iPhone
People
Real
Same
Think
Understand
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Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
~ Alan Kay
Computer
Computer Science
Creates
Find
Give
Given
Job
Normal
Out
Rules
Science
World
You
Your
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Context is worth 80 IQ points.
~ Alan Kay
Context
IQ
Points
Worth
design
copy
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
~ Alan Kay
Agents
Complementary
Does
Draw
Etc
Get
Having
Intelligent
Need
Read
Rid
Secretary
Tools
Well
World
Write
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
~ Alan Kay
Age
Books
By The Time
Fortune
Grade
Had
Hit
How
Knew
Learn
Lying
Maybe
Me
Misfortune
Read
Starting
Teachers
Three
Time
Were
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I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.
~ Alan Kay
Apple
Because
Been
Certain
Companies
Derived
Disney
Fellow
Fellows
IBM
Institute
Itself
MIT
Number
Professor
Program
Programs
Similarities
Were
Which
Xerox
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If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
~ Alan Kay
Aiming
Enough
Fail
High
Least
Percent
Time
You
design
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In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
~ Alan Kay
Actually
Amount
Based
Business
Commercial
Company
Current
Going
How
Inverse
More
Problem
Relationship
Research
Should
Things
Well
Whereas
World
Worse
You
Your
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In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'
~ Alan Kay
Beg
Days
Now
Oh
Old
Old Days
People
Please
Reinvent
Reinvent The Wheel
Reinventing
Wheel
Would
You
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It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing - which I think is what we have - gives us '1984.'
~ Alan Kay
Books
Change
Controlling
Everything
Gives
Group
Hard
I Think
Information
Online
People
Somewhat
Then
Thing
Think
Us
Which
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
~ Alan Kay
Bricks
Brute
Brute Force
Done
Each
Egyptian
Force
Integrity
Just
Like
Millions
Most
Much
Other
Piled
Pyramid
Slaves
Software
Structural
Thousands
Today
Top
Very
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
~ Alan Kay
Because
Done
Even
Good
Love
Much
Others
Own
People
Requires
Science
Society
Theories
Thinkers
Thoughts
Trying
Who
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