Alan Kay Quotes

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  The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

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  Tags in Invent

• If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.

  Alan Kay

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Context is worth 80 IQ points.

  Alan Kay

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

  Alan Kay

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

  Alan Kay

• Some 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 Kay

• Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

  Alan Kay

  Topics in Wisdom

• 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

  Topics in Technology

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

  Alan Kay

  Topics in Technology

Alan Kay (10)

Birth:	17th May, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Computer Scientist

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Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, The best way to predict the future is to invent it. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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