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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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