They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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