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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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 tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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