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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.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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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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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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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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