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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
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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