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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
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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