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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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