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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.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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