Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAYA new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAY -
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAY -
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAY -
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAY -
I’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 KAY -
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
ALAN KAY -
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAY -
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
ALAN KAY -
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAY -
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAY -
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAY -
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAY -
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAY