Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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