I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAY -
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAY -
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAY -
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 KAY -
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAY -
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAY -
I 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 KAY -
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
ALAN KAY -
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
ALAN KAY -
In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
ALAN KAY -
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAY -
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAY -
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAY -
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAY -
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAY -
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAY -
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAY -
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAY -
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAY -
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAY -
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAY -
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY -
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAY -
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
ALAN KAY -
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAY -
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAY