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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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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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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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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.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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