They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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I 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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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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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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