Alan Kay
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kayis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 May 1940
CountryUnited States of America
becomes believe demands few normal people quite sort threshold
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
firsts language programming
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
teacher lying book
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.
worry way live-by
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
mind programming term
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
real romance revolution
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
inspirational easier
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
arrogance computer mets
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
language building programming
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
technology people serious
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
law track want
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.
art jobs laughter
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
labs research enough
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
technology important firsts
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.