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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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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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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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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