They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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 is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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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