Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
Alan Kay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alan Kay
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 17
Computer Scientist
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Programmer
University Teacher
Springfield
Massachusetts
Alan Curtis Kay
Alan C. Kay
Special
Use
Needs
Every
Really
Shipped
Manual
Manuals
Technology
More quotes by Alan Kay
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
Alan Kay
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
Alan Kay
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
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.
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
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.
Alan Kay
The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan Kay
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Alan Kay
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
Alan Kay
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
Alan Kay
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
Alan Kay
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Alan Kay
Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
Alan Kay
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
Alan Kay
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
Alan Kay
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
Alan Kay
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
Alan Kay
