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When I first got to Apple, wh...

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Computer science inverts the ...

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 78 quotes

Some people worry that artifi...

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 78 quotes

As far as Apple goes, it was ...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Quite a few people have to be...

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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I've been a Fellow in a numbe...

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

There is the desire of a cons...

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ po...

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

In the old days, you would ch...

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

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Social thinking requires very...

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

Alan Kay 78 quotes

If you don't fail at least 90...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Because people don't understa...

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 78 quotes

Most software today is very m...

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 78 quotes

The best way to predict the f...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Context is worth 80 IQ points...

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

I had the fortune or misfortu...

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Some people worry that artific...

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 78 quotes

The best way to predict the fu...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ poi...

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Technology is anything that wa...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

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