I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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