Alan Kay
Pioneer of OOP and GUI, Turing Award winner
Quotes by Alan Kay
The computer is a new kind of medium for expression.
The computer is a new kind of medium for communication.
The computer is a new kind of medium for learning.
The computer is a new kind of medium for play.
The computer is a new kind of medium for living.
The computer is a new kind of medium for being.
The most important thing in a programming language is that it be simple enough for a human to understand.
The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be designed.
The greatest danger in the computer world is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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.
If you want to make a computer that is truly personal, it has to be able to learn about you.
The Dynabook was a vision of a personal computer for children, a powerful tool for learning and creativity.
The future is not what it used to be.
The only thing that is constant is change.
The real revolution is not in the technology, but in the way we think about it.
The computer is the most important invention of the 20th century.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The only thing worse than a bad idea is no idea.