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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

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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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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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