Quotes by Alan Kay

Alan Kay

[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 else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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People

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

Coffee

Computer

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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Drinking

New Friends

Wine

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Firsts

Important

Technology

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Enough

Labs

Research

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

Couple

Education

Teacher

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

Changed

Easy

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Needs

Special

Technology

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

Doe

Intelligent

Writing

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Coins

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Desire

Doe

Done

Drinking

Easy

Education

Enough

Example

Fabulous

Failing

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Quotes by Alan Kay

Alan Kay

[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 else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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