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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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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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