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
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.
firsts language programming
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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.
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.
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
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.
real order internet
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet