Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThis tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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”.
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