This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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 result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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