Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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