Alan Kay
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kayis an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth17 May 1940
CountryUnited States of America
freedom science blood
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
art reading writing
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
hate law people
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.
drinking wine new-friends
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
powerful men world
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
magic literacy aim
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
communication humanity enough
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
communication television warning
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
technology special needs
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
technology machines language
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
real order internet
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet
design coins done
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
nature flower should-have
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.