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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
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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 invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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 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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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