Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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