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Famous Alan Kay Quotes
“If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.”
“Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.”
“To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.”
“Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.”
“In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.”
“I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.”
“Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)”
“As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.”
“Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet”
“The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.”
“Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.”
“An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.”
“A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.”
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
“Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.”