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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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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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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