01UndatedI 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.Alan Kay / quote ↗
02UndatedNormal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is you have to understand normal not as reality, but just a construct. And a way to do that, for example, is just travel to a lot of different countries and you'll find a thousand different ways of thinking the world is real, all of which are just stories inside of people's heads. That's what we are too. Normal is just a construct, and to the extent that you can see normal as a construct in yourself, you have freed yourself from the constraints of thinking this is the way the world is. Because it isn't. This is the way we are.Alan Kay / quote ↗
03UndatedScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.Alan Kay / quote ↗
06UndatedI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.Alan Kay / quote ↗
07UndatedSome 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.Alan Kay / quote ↗
08UndatedThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.Alan Kay / quote ↗
10UndatedPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.Alan Kay / quote ↗
11UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
