The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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