Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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