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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
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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 made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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