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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.

Alan Kay

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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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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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 hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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