Alan Kay

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Famous Quotes from Alan Kay (The brillant deep thoughts)

Smalltalk is not only NOT its syntax ... even the term "Object" causes people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is "messaging".
Smalltalk is a paradigm for attacking large problems of the professional programmer, and making small ones possible for the novice user.
Take the hardest and most profound thing you need to do, make it great, and then build every easier out of it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The basic principle of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.
When Newton said he saw further by standing on the shoulders of the giants, computer scientists all to often stand on each other's toes.
More to see at reference: Alan Kay - Wikiquote.
Alan Kay and Steve Jobs
Object Oriented
- Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
[The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet]
- "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet" - Paper (PDF Document)
- "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet" - Turing Award lecture (Video)