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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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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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