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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

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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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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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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