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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

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
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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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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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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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