What did Alan Kay mean by: Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material. Alan Kay Computer Scientist Copy
+ We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it. Author, September 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Alan Kay, Creation, Innovation, Uncertainty, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
+ The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Author, July 8, 2023January 2, 2025, Alan Kay, Creation, Future, Innovation, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Kay, Generational, Innovation, Perception, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
+ If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied. Author, June 12, 2023January 2, 2025, Alan Kay, Contentment, Satisfaction, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Kay, Finishing, Self-awareness, Starting, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Kay, Change, Generation, Innovation, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Kay, Independence, Innovation, Integration, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alan Kay, Complexity, Possibility, Simplicity, 0 Alan Kay Computer Scientist
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. Jean-Georges Noverre Choreographer · France
