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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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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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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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