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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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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
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Springfield
Massachusetts
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can 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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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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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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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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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