Alan Kay Quotes


"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay
(Related: Future)

"Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is."
- Alan Kay
(Related: People)

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
- Alan Kay
(Related: Perspective, Worth)

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."
- Alan Kay
(Related: People, Hardware, Software)

"The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited."
- Alan Kay
(Related: Nature, Act, Computer, Language, Machine)