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
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.