Alan Kay

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

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

The computer revolution hasn't happened yet.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

The Dynabook is a personal computer for children of all ages.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

The user interface is the system.

Point of view is worth 80 IQ points.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be built.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

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

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

The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its capacity to simulate.

Doing with images makes the world more understandable.

The greatest danger in the computer world is not that computers will get too smart, but that we will get too dumb.

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

The real revolution is not in the machines, but in the way we think about them.

The computer is a medium, not a tool.

The future of computing is not about bigger, faster machines, but about more intimate, personal ones.