Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.Creative Think seminar, 20 July 1982
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Alan Kay is a renowned computer scientist known for his pioneering work in the field of personal computing. He is credited with inventing the concept of the laptop computer, graphical user interface (GUI), overlapping windowing interface, and the programming language Smalltalk. Throughout his career, Kay has made significant contributions to the development of modern computing technology.
b. 1930
Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.Creative Think seminar, 20 July 1982
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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.The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet, 1984
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.A Conversation with Alan Kay - ACM Queue, December 27, 2004
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