Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAY
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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent 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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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