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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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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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[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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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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