<div>There are some classic quotes and ideas there Bill. Thanks for compiling them.</div>
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<div>If only this sort of vision could be magically transferred to all educational leaders.</div>
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<div>I especially like the two quotes on how to predict the future: invent it, or prevent it.</div>
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<div>Some recent discussions suggest that that different people have different views on which is the best approach...</div>
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<div>Cheers, </div>
<div>kp</div>
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<div>Ken Price</div>
<div>President, TASITE<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Kerr</b> <<a href="mailto:billkerr@gmail.com">billkerr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">my alan kay VITTA presentation outline is here (slides, notes, history, annotated reference)<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay+talk" target="_blank">
http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay+talk</a><br><br>Some nice alan kay quotations here: <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay" target="_blank">
http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay</a><br>eg.<br>"Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves"
<br><br>-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________
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