The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYBecause 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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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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 had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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