Quotes
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Alan Kay

"Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Thereâ€™s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the â€œAha.â€ Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that weâ€™re in â€” the one that we think is reality."

Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

Alan Kay

#Art Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?”
“Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.”
“Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.”
“The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.”
“And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.”

Source : "Berenice Marlohe Talks SKYFALL, Playing a Femme Fatale/Bond Girl, How She Was Cast, and More". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 1, 2012.
“What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.”
“In the end, itâ€™s not about failure, itâ€™s about how much you love what you do.”

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