I 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”.
ALAN KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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