Top 10 Most Famous Alan Kay Quotes (BEST)
“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




“I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.”
Alan Kay




2 Inspirational Alan Kay Quotes About the Future
“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
Alan Kay

4 Alan Kay Quotes on Programming and Software
“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.”
Alan Kay



4 Alan Kay Quotes on Computer Science




3 Alan Kay Quotes About Change



4 Alan Kay Quotes on Creativity (APPLE)
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the ‘Aha.’ Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.”
Alan Kay



2 Alan Kay Quotes on School and Education
“Most people have managed to get by without being educated… because, in order to make education more user-friendly, they managed to forget about the changes in people’s brains that are supposed to happen.”
Alan Kay

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