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Alan Kay Quotes

«The best way to predict the future is to invent it.»
Author: Alan Kay | About: Future | Keywords: invent, predict, predicting, Predicts
«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.»
«Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.»
Author: Alan Kay
«It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools.»
«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.»
Author: Alan Kay
«The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.»
Author: Alan Kay | About: Computers | Keywords: exploited, protean, shaped, such that
«It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.»