Author: 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.

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

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

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

- Alan Kay

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

- Alan Kay

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

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

- Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

- Alan Kay

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

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

- Alan Kay

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

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

- Alan Kay

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

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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