Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYIt 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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’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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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