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ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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 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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[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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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 had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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