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

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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