Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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