Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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