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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
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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. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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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”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. 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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