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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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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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 made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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