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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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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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