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Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.

~Alan Kay

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

~Alan Kay

Topics: About Hardware Make Own People Really Serious Should Software Who

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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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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.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Anybody Artificial Artificial Intelligence Complex Every Every Time Feel Flower He His Inferior Inferiority Inferiority Complex Intelligence Looks Make Mind People Right Right Mind Should Some Some People Then Time Us Will Worry

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

~Alan Kay

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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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Topics: Becomes Before Believe Demands Everyone Few Few People Normal Once People Quite Reached Situation Something Sort Then Threshold Voting Whatever

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If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Aiming Enough Fail High Least Percent Time You

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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.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Bricks Brute Brute Force Done Each Egyptian Force Integrity Just Like Millions Most Much Other Piled Pyramid Slaves Software Structural Thousands Today Top Very

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Anything Around Born Technology Were You

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Context is worth 80 IQ points.

~Alan Kay

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 17th, 1940

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