Alan Kay

“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.”

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

“Java is the most distressing thing to happen to computing since MS-DOS.”

“The computer is a medium, not a tool.”

“Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.”

“Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.”

“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.”

“An important ingredient of success is raising your standards.”

“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“I invented the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.”

“Context is worth 80 IQ points.”

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

“The computer revolution hasn't started yet.”

“If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.”

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