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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
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University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
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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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[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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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