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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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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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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