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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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