Alan Kay Quotes About Technology
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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