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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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