Alan Kay

We need to empower individuals to create their own futures.

The computer is a medium for expressing and exploring ideas.

The most exciting things happen at the intersections of disciplines.

The future is open-ended, and we are the ones who get to shape it.

Don't worry about what you can't do yet. Worry about what you can't imagine yet.

Software is a great amplifier. It can amplify good ideas or bad ideas.

We need to invent the future, not just predict it.

The purpose of a computer is to be a bicycle for the mind.

The computer is the first medium that can represent every other medium.

The biggest mistake we made was to think of the computer as a tool, rather than a medium.

The computer is a new kind of book, a dynamic book.

The computer is a meta-medium.

The computer is a new kind of canvas.

The computer is a new kind of playground.

The computer is a new kind of lens.

The computer is a new kind of amplifier for human thought.

The computer is a new kind of extension of ourselves.

The computer is a new kind of environment.

The computer is a new kind of dream machine.

The computer is a new kind of tool for thought.