A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYI’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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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