--- title: "1 Science Requires Quotes By Alan Kay" description: "1 Science Requires quotes by Alan Kay. Plus more from Alan Kay and more Science Requires sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/alan-kay-7358_done_science-requires-a-society-because-even_1488043.jpg" --- > [Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/science-requires-a-society-because-even-people-who-are-trying-to-be/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/alan-kay-7358_done_science-requires-a-society-because-even_1488043.jpg) ## More by Alan Kay > [In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/in-our-society-we-have-hard-nerds-and-soft-nerds-the-hard-nerds-are/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/as-far-as-apple-goes-it-was-a-different-company-every-few-years-from/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/when-i-first-prepared-this-particular-talk-i-realized-that-my-usual/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/quite-a-few-people-have-to-believe-something-is-normal-before-it/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/every-technology-really-needs-to-be-shipped-with-a-special-manual-not/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/java-and-c-make-you-think-that-the-new-ideas-are-like-the-old-ones/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/it-s-hard-to-change-information-in-books-but-if-we-have-everything/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Computer programmers do it byte by byte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/computer-programmers-do-it-byte-by-byte/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/lisp-isn-t-a-language-it-s-a-building-material/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/the-tree-of-research-must-be-fed-from-time-to-time-with-the-blood-of/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/people-who-are-really-serious-about-software-should-make-their-own/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/i-think-the-trick-with-knowledge-is-to-acquire-it-and-forget-all/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/possibly-the-only-real-object-oriented-system-in-working-order-about/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/a-change-in-perspective-is-worth-80-iq-points/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) > [Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/humans-are-communications-junkies-we-just-can-t-get-enough/) [Alan Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-kay/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-requires/alan-kay/#itemlist", "name": "1 Science Requires Quotes By Alan Kay", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alan Kay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-kay/science-requires-a-society-because-even-people-who-are-trying-to-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/alan-kay-7358_done_science-requires-a-society-because-even_1488043.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/alan-kay-7358_done_science-requires-a-society-because-even_1488043.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/alan-kay-7358_done_science-requires-a-society-because-even_1488043.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts…” — Alan Kay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-requires/alan-kay/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-requires/alan-kay/", "name": "Science Requires Quotes by Alan Kay", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science-requires/alan-kay/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/alan-kay-7358_done_science-requires-a-society-because-even_1488043.jpg" }, "description": "1 Science Requires quotes by Alan Kay. 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