118 Quotes by Alan Kay

Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general’s warning.

Most people have managed to get by without being educated…because, in order to make education more user-friendly, they managed to forget about the changes in people’s brains that are supposed to happen.

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

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.