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Alan Kay
American
Scientist
About the author
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,
American
Scientist
#Time
#Right
#People
#Will
#Mind
#Worry
#Intelligence
#Inferiority
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay,
American
Scientist
#Future
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,
American
Scientist
#People
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay,
American
Scientist
#Worth
#Perspective
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay,
American
Scientist
#People
#Hardware
#Software
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,
American
Scientist
#Language
#Act
#Nature
#Computer
#Machine