If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAY -
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
ALAN KAY -
Understanding- -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 -
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAY -
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAY -
The greatest single programming language ever designed
ALAN KAY -
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAY -
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAY -
And 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 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 -
The 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 KAY -
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAY -
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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 -
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAY






