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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 s...

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very d...

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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a ...

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his ...

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Technology is anything invented after you were born.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in compute...

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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...

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Normal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is ...

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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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Alan Kay

Computer Scientist

Born: 1940-05-17

Died: N/A

Alan Curtis Kay (born 17 May 1940) is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.More