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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.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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 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 medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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