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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.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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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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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 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. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. 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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