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"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years."
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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."
"Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands."
"Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow."
"The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive."
"Okay, I have internet but it's limited and here on the web the information is countless."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor."
"To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update."
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"If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left."
"In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn."
"ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business."
"The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know."
"In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test."
"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again."
"If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training."
"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get."
"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"
"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."
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