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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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