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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
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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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 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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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 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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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