Alan Kay
Brief Bio: American computer scientist
Lived: 1940-
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Quotes:
“Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible”
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
“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.
1971 from the remarks “Meeting of the Palo Alto Research Center”