There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAY
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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 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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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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