"The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to."

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Source : "The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence". Book edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Karen Prendergast, 1984.

Alan Kay

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“I like playing with a good crowd.”
“Running more doesn't do you any good. You've got to be successful more.”
“It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.”
“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

Source : "Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays". Book by James Richardson, 2001.
“Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.
“When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.”
“You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't. It's not important. You're not important. Get used to it”
“On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.”

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