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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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