The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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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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