It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
ALAN KAYAnd 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 KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYIn a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYWhen I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYThe protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAYA change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
ALAN KAYI realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
ALAN KAYIf we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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