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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
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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 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 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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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