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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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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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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves 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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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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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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