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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.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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