We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYThe Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAYA computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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 KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYThe perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAY