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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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