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

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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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