If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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