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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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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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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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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.
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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. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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.
Alan Kay
