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"Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
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Alan KayA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. — Alan Kay
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
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Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface. There he also led the development of the influential object-oriented programming language Smalltalk, both personally designing most of the ear
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"Technology is anything that wasnt around when you were born."
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"Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Theres 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 were in — the one that we think is reality."
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"... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)"
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"Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)"
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"I dont know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras."
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