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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to 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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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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