Alan Kay Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Lying Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Lying Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Language Quotes , Building Quotes

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Computer Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Poor Quotes , Starters Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Years Quotes , Apples Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Simple Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Artificial Intelligence Quotes , Know How Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Technology Quotes

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Able Quotes , Destruction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Success Quotes

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Iphone Quotes , Eight Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Real Quotes , Romance Quotes