A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYArt 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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