Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
About Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kayis an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interfacedesign. At Xerox PARC he led the design and development of the first modern windowed computer desktop interface.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
American computer scientist (born 1940)
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
American computer scientist (born 1940)
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
American computer scientist (born 1940)
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
American computer scientist (born 1940)