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
technology important firsts
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
funny-inspirational integrity technology
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.
language programming programming-languages
The greatest single programming language ever designed
way
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
easy changed
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
wise cavemen scratches
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
technology born
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
wisdom perspective
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
nature flower should-have
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.
real order internet
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet
design coins done
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
technology machines language
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
hate law people
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.
drinking wine new-friends
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.