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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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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.
Alan Kay
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Alan Kay
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Alan Kay
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
Alan Kay
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
Alan Kay
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
Alan Kay
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
Alan Kay
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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
Alan Kay
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Alan Kay
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
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.
Alan Kay
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
Alan Kay
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
Alan Kay
