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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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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Communications
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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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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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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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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