Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. — Alan Kay

School is basically about one point of view–the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don’t like the idea of having different points of view. — Alan Kay

I made up the term ‘object–oriented,’ and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay

It’s all about long–term, sustaining relationships. — Alan Kay

The only way you can predict the future is to build it. — Alan Kay

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it. — Alan Kay

Alan Kay quips, ‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Satya Nadella

It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it. — Alan Kay

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet. — Alan Kay

I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano–Dijkstras. — Alan Kay

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. — Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. — Alan Kay

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine. — Alan Kay

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon–general’s warning. — Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world. — Alan Kay

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture. — Alan Kay

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary. — Alan Kay

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you’re given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world. — Alan Kay

Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough. — Alan Kay

If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough. — Alan Kay

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay

If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems. — Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. — Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean–counters, for it is its natural manure. — Alan Kay