Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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