In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAY -
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
ALAN KAY -
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
ALAN KAY -
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAY -
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAY -
Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
ALAN KAY -
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAY -
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAY -
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAY -
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAY -
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAY -
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAY -
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAY