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Alan Kay Quotes

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1940

Topics

Nature Technology Language Act Like

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

Sad Great Peace World Talking Him

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Life Change Future Time Past Law

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

Music Writing Award My Own Own

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

Respect People Me Talking You Know

In any industry, the people with the freshest ideas usually come from outside.

People Ideas Outside Industry Come

In the way in which we are living in a much more explosive and more tension-filled society, a society that is driven with more and more contradictions, it is but unavoidable that some of this will also come into cinema. I would, in fact, argue that a part of it is borrowed from Hollywood. It's as if Quentin Tarantino has come to Mumbai.

Society Cinema Living Hollywood Way

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Humor Personality Better Sarcastic

Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

Girl Black America Roommates Know

Of all the '60s - there was Elvis, there was the Beatles, there was the British invasion, Jimmy Hendrix, and Woodstock - the No. 1 record was 'The Twist.'

Woodstock British Twist Beatles

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

Me Choice Fatherhood Both Times

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

History I Am Capitalism Communist Am

I've done a lot of dramas, and I've done a lot of serious stuff - some really heavy stuff... which I loved, but I wanted to do something light and airy. I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

Light Challenge Fun Have Fun Think

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