Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYI realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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