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
journey civilization understanding
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.
technology special needs
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.
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.
communication humanity enough
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
magic literacy aim
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
powerful men world
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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.
statistics computer program
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
art reading writing
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
freedom science blood
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
believe people voting
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.
challenges problem failing
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
simple simplicity should
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.