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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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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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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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