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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
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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 fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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