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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
Alan C. Kay
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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