118 Quotes by Alan Kay

"Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning."

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

"We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it."

"Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet"

"The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully."

"Change is easy, except for the changed part."

"The greatest single programming language ever designed"

"The only way you can predict the future is to build it."

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

"I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training."