Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYI think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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