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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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.
Alan Kay
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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