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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.

Alan Kay

But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
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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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basically One Point School Teacher Textbook View
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
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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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Another Context Creativity Most Mst Surprise Thing Transition
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
Understanding- -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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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding
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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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually

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