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
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
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
From the remarks “Parc discussions with Alan Kay”