It [the computer] is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools.
– Alan Kay
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.
– Alan Kay
The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
– Alan Kay
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
– Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
– Alan Kay
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
– Alan Kay
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
– Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.