We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
ALAN KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYSome 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 KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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 KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYThe only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAYThe hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYArt 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