118 Quotes by Alan Kay

"Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar."

"The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality."

"Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet"

"The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers."

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

"The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas."

"Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated."

"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,..."

"I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick."

"Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward."