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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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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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 tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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