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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
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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