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Technology is anything that wa...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ poi...

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

The protean nature of the comp...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

People who are really serious ...

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

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ poi...

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Quite a few people have to bel...

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.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Most software today is very mu...

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

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

It's easier to invent the futu...

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

By the time I got to school, I...

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Simple things should be simple...

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

In computers, every 'new explo...

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

The tree of research must be f...

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

The most disastrous thing that...

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

I don't know how many of you h...

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Scratch the surface in a typic...

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Java and C++ make you think th...

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

We cannot predict the future, ...

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Alan Kay 78 quotes

Computer literacy is a contact...

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
a part of our lives?

Alan Kay 78 quotes

I had the fortune or misfortun...

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

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