Alan Kay Quotes

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

Alan Kay

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If you're passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they're the happiest.

Jennifer Hyman

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The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

John Fleming

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By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

John Cena

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Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

John Sandford

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We're so known for our party dresses and evening looks, I wanted to focus on what the Alice + Olivia woman is going to wear tomorrow, during the day and on the weekend, in ways that are sort of fun and sexy.

Stacey Bendet

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If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Simon Fuller

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I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.

Simon Schama

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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Ruth Negga

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Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time.

Ruthie Ann Miles

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I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.

Clay Aiken

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We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

Bozoma Saint John

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I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

Bryan Clay

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