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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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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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