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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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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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.
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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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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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