Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYSo 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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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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