Alan Kay Quotes

Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts.

Birth: May 17, 1940

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

It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

Topic(s): Long , Term , Long Term

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

Topic(s): Computer , Scientist , Machines

Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Topic(s): Men , World , Enough

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Topic(s): Way , Worry , Investing

In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Topic(s): Success , Tendencies

I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.

Topic(s): Poor , Starters , Finishers

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

Topic(s): Needs , Use , Technology

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.