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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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