The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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.
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