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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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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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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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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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