Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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