Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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