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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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