Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAY
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Art 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.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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