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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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