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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
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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