School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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