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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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
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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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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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[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 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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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