Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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