This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I 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”.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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