Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYI 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”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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