Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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