When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.' Alan Kay More Quotes by Alan Kay More Quotes From Alan Kay The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. Alan Kay programming language firsts Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay investing worry way The greatest single programming language ever designed Alan Kay programming-languages programming language An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it. Alan Kay technology important firsts I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me. Alan Kay teacher book lying The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, 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 track law want 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 nature flower should-have School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view. Alan Kay views teacher school Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. Alan Kay born technology Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality. Alan Kay laughter jobs art 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. Alan Kay nano computer arrogance When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. 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. Alan Kay eight iphone world Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. Alan Kay make-you-think ideas thinking The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. Alan Kay technology ocean men People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Alan Kay technology serious people I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. Alan Kay programming term mind Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. Alan Kay programming building language It's easier to invent the future than to predict it. Alan Kay easier inspirational Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it. Alan Kay labs research enough The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Alan Kay romance revolution real
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