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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.

Alan Kay

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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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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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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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