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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
Alan Kay
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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
Alan C. Kay
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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 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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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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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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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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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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