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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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[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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
Alan Kay
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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