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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.

Alan Kay

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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