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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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 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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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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