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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
design
copy
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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Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'
~ Alan Kay
About
Along
Anything
Because
Considered
Cope
Could
Example
For Example
Get
Had
Happened
Hardly
How
Most
Mutually
Over
Pervasive
Powerful
Progress
Requires
Social
Thinking
Time
Very
Years
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Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.
~ Alan Kay
Apple
Aware
Come
He
Me
Perfectly
Reasons
Steve
Wanted
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copy
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
~ Alan Kay
Anything
Around
Born
Technology
Were
You
design
copy
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.
~ Alan Kay
Consumer
Curves
Debilitating
Desire
Easy
Generally
Get
Learning
Products
Result
Society
Started
Tends
Very
Worthless
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When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'
~ Alan Kay
Apple
Asked
Computer
Criticized
Enough
First
Good
Got
Mac
Me
Out
Personal
Said
Thought
Well
Which
design
copy
A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.
~ Alan Stern
Because
Dog
Just
Just Because
Miniature
Poodle
design
copy
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