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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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