A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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