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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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