118 Quotes by Alan Kay

"I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification."

"In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing."

"I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher."

"Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term."

"In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign."

"If you're utopian, you're never satisfied."

"It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships,"

"When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world."

"Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff."

"Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight."