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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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