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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Alan Kay

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
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
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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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
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 the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
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
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
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
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
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
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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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
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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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

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