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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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