Alan Kay

“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to. 1984 in Alan Kay's paper Inventing the Future which appears in The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Patrick Henry Winston and Karen Prendergast. As quoted by Eugene Wallingford in a post entiteled ALAN KAY'S TALKS AT OOPSLA on November 06, 2004 9:03 PM at the website of the Computer Science section of the University of Northern Iowa.”

“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. Hong Kong press conference in the late 1980s”

“Talk at Creative Think seminar, 20 July 1982”

“Point of view is worth 80 IQ points”

“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. talk at Creative Think seminar, 20 July 1982”

“[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around. Alan Kay (1972) in 1972 Rolling Stone article”

“Cf. Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (1963): "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."”

“Similar remarks are attributed to Peter Drucker and Dandridge M. Cole.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC”