Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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