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
communication humanity enough
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
communication television warning
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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.
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.
easy changed
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
way
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
inspirational easier
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
labs research enough
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
thinking ideas make-you-think
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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.
wisdom perspective
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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.
ocean technology men
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.