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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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