“People Serious About Software” – Alan Kay
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
Alan Kay
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“Nothing Is More Singular About This Generation Than Its Addiction to Music” – Allan Bloom
“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.”
Allan Bloom
Testing Hypotheses – Quote by Karl Popper
“The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.”
Karl Popper
Reading and Achievement – Quote by Ben Carson
“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”
Ben Carson
A Human Being Should Be Versatile – Robert A. Heinlein
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein Quote on History and Generations
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Alan Kay Quote About the Future
“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
Alan Kay
Paradigm Shifts and Science – Quote by Thomas Kuhn
“The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.”
Thomas Kuhn
Quote About Ignorance and Knowledge – Karl Popper
“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.”
Karl Popper
Outcast or Self-Betrayal: Chris Hedges on Integrity and Resistance
“It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.”
Chris Hedges