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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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 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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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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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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict 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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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