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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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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
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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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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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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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