A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view 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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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