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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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 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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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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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