A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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