Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A 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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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