By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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