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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.

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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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