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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

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
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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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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