Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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