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Alan Kay

born 1930

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.

  1. No.14597

    The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

    Alan Kay
    #programming#learning#disaster
  2. No.12767

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

    Alan KayOriginally attributed to Alan Kay
    #future#creativity#innovation
  3. No.6892

    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.

    Alan KayACM Queue, A Conversation with Alan Kay, Vol. 2, No. 9, Dec/Jan 2004-2005
    #pyramid#complexity#critique
  4. No.5540

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

    Alan Kayen.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
    #hardware#software#creativity
  5. No.780

    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.

    Alan Kay
    #software#achievement#irony
  6. No.323

    Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.

    Alan Kay
    #enthusiasm#intelligence#motivation

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