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18 quotes by Alan Kay

Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." He is the president of the...
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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Context is worth 80 IQ points.

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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... →

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex... →

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

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All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago.... →

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

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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... →

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is... →

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I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were... →

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

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