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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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