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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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