Alan Kay Quotes

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

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.

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.

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

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

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.

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

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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