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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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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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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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