Alan Kay Quotes & Sayings

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

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

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

“If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.”

“As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.”

“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.”

“Some 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.”

“Context is worth 80 IQ points.”

“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.”