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Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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Greatest
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Lisp
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Designed
More quotes by Alan Kay
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
Alan Kay
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Alan Kay
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan Kay
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
Alan Kay
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
Alan Kay
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Alan Kay
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.
Alan Kay
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay
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.
Alan Kay
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
Alan Kay
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Alan Kay
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
Alan Kay
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Alan Kay
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
Alan Kay
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Alan Kay
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.
Alan Kay
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Alan Kay
I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
Alan Kay
