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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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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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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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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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