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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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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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