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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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