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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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Silver
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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