A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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