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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
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict 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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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