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

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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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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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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