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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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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
Lisp
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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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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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.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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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