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

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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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