Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYA 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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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