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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
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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