They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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