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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
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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