Alan Kay Quotes, Mind Quotes, Programming Quotes

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Mind Quotes , Programming Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , People Quotes , Trying Quotes

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Success Quotes

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Worry Quotes , Investing Quotes

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Law Quotes , Track Quotes

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Media Quotes , Expression Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Firsts Quotes , Language Quotes

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Poor Quotes , Starters Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Science Quotes

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Technology Quotes

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Language Quotes , Building Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Long Quotes , Term Quotes

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Computer Quotes

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Technology Quotes , Stuff Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Wine Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Technology Quotes , People Quotes

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Easy Quotes