The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a… — 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
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent… — 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
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000… — 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
