Alan Kay Quotes, Iphone Quotes, Eight 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Iphone Quotes , Eight Quotes

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Merit Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Technology Quotes

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Writing Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Real Quotes , Romance Quotes

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Secret Quotes , World Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Simple Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Funny Inspirational Quotes , Integrity 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Able Quotes , Destruction 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

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Wise Quotes , Typical 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Technology Quotes , Machines 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Lying Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

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

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Voice Quotes

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Easy Quotes

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Views Quotes , Perspective Quotes

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Journey Quotes , Civilization 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

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Kay Quotes , Real Quotes , Ideas Quotes