The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYThe future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYAnd when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYAn important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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 KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYPeople are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
ALAN KAYThere’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYUnderstanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
ALAN KAY