Alan Kay
computer scientist
- The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas.
- I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
- A new point of view is worth 80 IQ points
- Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
- All creativity is an extended form of a joke.
Verified
- The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
- Source: Chris Crawford on Game Design
- By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. 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, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
- Source: "Alan Kay by Scott Gasch"
