Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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