School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYAny medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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