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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
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
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 that wasn't around when you were born.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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