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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves 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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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