Alan Kay Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

  Alan Kay

  Ocean, Technology, Men

  Interview with Andrew Binstock, www.drdobbs.com. July 10, 2012.

• Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Born

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.

• People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

  Alan Kay

  Technology, People, Serious

  Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.

• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

  Alan Kay

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Technology

  "A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman in ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

• The 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

  Technology, Machines, Language

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

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Special, Needs

  "The Infobahn Is Not The Answer" by Alan Kay, www.wired.com. May 1, 1994.

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

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Important, Firsts

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

  Alan Kay

  Technology, Stuff, Born

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