Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Interpretation
Behind the facade of professionalism, we all crave deeper understanding and storytelling.
This quote by Alan Kay suggests that despite the sophisticated environment of a boardroom, the fundamental human nature of curiosity and the desire for knowledge remain unchanged. We are still driven by a need for wisdom and connection, akin to our ancient ancestors who sought meaning through stories.
In practice
During a company retreat, a leader could use this quote to emphasize the importance of sharing stories.
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
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