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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Alan Kay

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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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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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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