We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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.
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