As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
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