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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
Alan C. Kay
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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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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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.
Alan Kay
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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