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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

~Alan Kay

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All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

~Alan Kay

Topics: Agriculture Back Businesses Companies Could Cultures Deep Find Gathering Hunting Invent Like Problem Prosper Put Something Together Way Worked World Would Years Years Ago

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Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.

~Alan Kay

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It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing - which I think is what we have - gives us '1984.'

~Alan Kay

Topics: Books Change Controlling Everything Gives Group Hard Information Online People Somewhat Then Thing Think Us Which I Think

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In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.

~Alan Kay

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 17th, 1940

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