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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
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves 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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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