Alan Kay quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There's an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha.” 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. View quote
Alan Kay

Alan Kay

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Photo: Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Scientist
Born: May 17, 1940
Quotes count: 35
Wikipedia: Alan Kay

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