Context Quote by Alan Kay Download Open image “Context is worth 80 IQ points.” — Alan Kay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Context Iq Points Worth
To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia. — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
“Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn’t seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“People who say that IQ is meaningless will quickly invoke it when the discussion turns to executing a murder with an IQ of 64,… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The United States is a very important country to us in the international context. But on other hand, Angola is also important to the… — Joao Lourenco Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Captaining your country, going out at Wembley, captaining Arsenal to 10 trophies, playing your first game - they're all amazing things. But, phew, saving… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek. — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed into something… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
