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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
Computer Scientist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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