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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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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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