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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.

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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.

Invent, Investing, Predict, Way, Worry

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

Artificial, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Know, Know How

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Example, Needs, Problem, Real, Term, Tiny

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Designed, Language, Programming, Programming Languages

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Calculators, Nerd, Our Society, Slides, Society, Whenever

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Drinking, Wine, New Friends, Old, Enjoy

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Change, Perspective, Point Of View, Points, Views

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.

Brain, Destinations, Drowns, Pick, Thinking, Voice

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

Hardware, People, Serious, Technology

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.

Book, Books, Lying, Teacher, Time

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

Design, Donanımlarını, Graphic, Graphic Design, Insanlar, Yazılım

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Finisher, Finishers, Poor, Starters

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

Act, Degrees, Dynamically, Expression, Media

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha. ” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.

Art, Creativity, Jobs, Laughter, Surprise, Surprising

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

Come, Real, Revolution, Romance

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.

Brute, Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Like, Technology, Top

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.

Civilization, Journey, Reward, Science, Traveling, Understanding

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet

Internet, Order, Possibly, Real, System

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.

Men, Ocean, Resource, Technology, Think, Thinking

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Future, Invent, Predict

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