Author: Alan Kay

Brief Info: American computer scientist

Years Lived: 1940-

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Quotations


The best way to predict the future is to invent it

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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do…. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws.

From the remarks Meeting of the Palo Alto Research Center

— 1971


Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible

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Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

From the remarks Parc discussions with Alan Kay

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