Alan Kay Quotes

It 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.

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.

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.

As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.

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.