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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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. 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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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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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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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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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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