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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
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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