In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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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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