Alan Kay Quotes

Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.

There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”