Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYI’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYArtificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYIf you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
ALAN KAYThe greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAY