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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
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
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American Scientist    Future   

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"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." Alan Kay
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American Scientist    Perspective   

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"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." Alan Kay
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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
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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
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"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." Alan Kay
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"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." Alan Kay
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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
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