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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Alan Kay
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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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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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