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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
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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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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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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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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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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