The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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 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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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