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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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 hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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[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.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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