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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 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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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[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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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