There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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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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