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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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