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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
Alan Curtis Kay
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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[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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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