The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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